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Saturday, June 25, 2011

Sepia Saturday~ Stromberg - Carlson

In the 1940's mom worked at the Stromberg~ Carlson Factory in Toronto Canada. She worked in the telephone department along with her best Friend Shirley Coulter and it was their job to put the dials on the phone.

Shirley Coulter,2 unknown Co Workers and my mom outside the Stromberg Carlson factory. I noticed my mom's Candy Cane dress but there is no snow on the ground not a jacket in sight so I don't think the pictures were taken in December, knowing my mother and how much she loved the Christmas Season she probably wore her festive dress regardless of the month.

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"Quotes"

“If you look deeply into the palm of your hand, you will see your parents and all generations of your ancestors. All of them are alive in this moment. Each is present in your body. You are the continuation of each of these people.”― Thích Nhất Hạnh

"This packrat has learned that what the next generation will value most is not what we owned, but the evidence of who we were and the tales of how we loved. In the end, it’s the family stories that are worth the storage.” ~Ellen Goodman~

“Without genealogy, the study of history is lifeless." ~ John Fishe~

To forget one's ancestors is to be a brook without a source, a tree without a root" ~Old Chinese Saying~

“The life of the dead is placed in the memory of the living.”~Cicero~

"In all of us there is a hunger, marrow-deep, to know our heritage, to know who we are and where we came from."~ Alex Haley~

"Family faces are magic mirrors. Looking at people who belong to us, we see the past, present and future." ~ T.S. Eliot~